Originally Posted by
loimpact
And as has been proven ad nauseum here and virtually every other place on the internet.....it doesn't matter where the weight is added or taken away.....it *is* the same. Nobody likes to hear that and I'm about 99.9% sure it's the reason we're all looking to lighten our bikes by less than 10% despite that net result being probably less than 1% of the total weight package.
But I'm also still not hearing a good argument for what a lighter wheelset gains us.
Is a heavier flywheel not more resistant to changes in orientation than a lighter flywheel? I can't say that I've seen a 'rotational weight debunking' that has addressed this - they usually only address negligible differences in power needed to 'spin-up' - but I don't see why this wouldn't provide an explanation for why people routinely report the impression that lighter wheels feel faster and more agile.